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"Joyful Curmudgeon" An oxymoron?
No! I see all the beauty of God's creation and I'm joyful.  At the same time, I see all the suffering and corruption going on in the world, and feel called to help expose and end it so that we may have true peace and compassion.

 


Silence – 14 July 2008
By Mary T. Hoffman

I found this poem by Thomas Hood, a British humorist and poet (obviously this is one of his serious poems), in a book of verse published in 1932:

Silence
By Thomas Hood
(1799 – 1845)

There is a silence where hath been no sound;
There is a silence where no sound may be;
In the cold grave, under the deep, deep sea,
Or in wide desert, where no life is found,
Which hath been mute, and still must sleep profound.
No voice is hushed, no life treads silently;
But cloud, and cloudy shadows wander free,
That never spoke, over the idle ground.
But in green ruins, in the desolate walls
Of antique palaces, where Man hath been,
Though the dun fox, or wild hyena, calls,
And owls, that flit continually between,
Shriek to the echo, and the low winds moan,
There the true Silence is, self-conscious and alone.

For Thomas Hood’s poem NO! visit:
http://www.all-creatures.org/heart/blog-20071101.html 

For a collection of poems and stories, visit:
http://www.all-creatures.org/poetrydir.html 

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